Great Britain, Oxford, John de Vere, Earl of, Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, Shore, Jane, Morton, John, Hastings, William Hastings, Lord, Biography, Edward IV, King of England 

Profiles the tumultuous era of the Wars of the Roses, the brutal 15th-century struggle to decide which branch of the royal family would win the crown of England, through the stories of five major players: William Hastings, a brave Yorkist soldier and charming courtier who rose from relative obscurity to become one of King Edward's closest advisers (and his pimp); the head of England's most ancient noble family, John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, who was determined to win the crown back for the Lancastrians; Lady Margaret Beaufort, the richest woman in England, a pious but dangerous noblewoman of royal descent and the mother of the future Henry VII; John Morton, a brilliant priest-lawyer and political genius who was skillful enough to be relied on by both Yorkist and Lancastrian kings to handle important state matters; and the beautiful daughter of a rich London merchant and sometime mistress of kings, Jane Shore 

Genre/Form: Biographies
History
Biography
Named Person: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby; Edward, King of England; William Hastings Hastings, Lord; John de Vere Oxford, Earl of; John Morton; Jane Shore; Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby; Edward, King of England; William Hastings Hastings, Lord; John Morton; John de Vere Oxford, Earl of; Jane Shore
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Desmond Seward; Folio Society (London, England)
OCLC Number: 774538295
Notes: In slipcase.
Originally published: London : Constable ; New York : Viking, 1995.
"This edition follows the text of the 2007 paperback edition, entitled A brief history of the Wars of the Roses, published by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, with minor emendations."--Title page verso.
Description: xix, 372 pages, 25 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map, genealogical tables ; 26 cm
Responsibility: Desmond Seward ; with a new preface by the author.